A town is an incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
[2] It also has the option of being named a city once it has a minimum population of 7,500 (there are no towns currently eligible for city status; the closest is Niverville, with a population of 5,947 in the Canada 2021 Census).
[4] The province's largest and smallest towns by land area are Gillam and Lac du Bonnet with land areas of 1,996.34 km2 (770.79 sq mi) and 2.15 km2 (0.83 sq mi) respectively.
[4] The province previously had 50 towns before a series of provincially mandated amalgamations took effect on January 1, 2015.
Communities meeting the population minimum are not always incorporated as urban municipalities.